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Compendium of Best Papers
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Over the past decade, the Program Committees from many of the USENIX conferences
and workshops have given out Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Presentation awards. For a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author.
Following is a list of these awards, with links to the papers. Note: You do not need to be a USENIX member to access the papers in this compendium.
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2008
USENIX Security '08
Best Paper:
Highly Predictive Blacklisting
Jian Zhang and Phillip Porras, SRI International; Johannes Ullrich,
SANS Institute
Best Student Paper:
Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
J. Alex Halderman, Princeton University; Seth D. Schoen,
Electronic Frontier Foundation;
Nadia Heninger and William Clarkson, Princeton University;
William Paul, Wind River Systems;
Joseph A. Calandrino and Ariel J. Feldman, Princeton University;
Jacob Appelbaum; Edward W. Felten, Princeton University
USENIX '08
Best Paper:
Decoupling Dynamic Program Analysis from Execution in Virtual Environments
Jim Chow, Tal Garfinkel, and Peter M. Chen, VMware
Best Student Paper:
Vx32: Lightweight User-level Sandboxing on the x86
Bryan Ford and Russ Cox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NSDI '08
Best Paper:
Remus: High Availability via Asynchronous Virtual Machine Replication
Brendan Cully, Geoffrey Lefebvre, Dutch Meyer, Mike Feeley, and Norm Hutchinson, University of British Columbia; Andrew Warfield, University of British Columbia and Citrix Systems, Inc.
Best Paper:
Consensus Routing: The Internet as a Distributed System
John P. John, Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst
LEET '08
Best Paper:
Designing and Implementing Malicious Hardware (PDF) or read in HTML
Samuel T. King, Joseph Tucek, Anthony Cozzie, Chris Grier, Weihang Jiang, and Yuanyuan Zhou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
FAST '08
Best Paper:
Portably Solving File TOCTTOU Races with Hardness Amplification
Dan Tsafrir, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; Tomer Hertz, Microsoft Research; David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley; Dilma Da Silva, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Best Student Paper:
An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Garth
Goodson, Network Appliance Inc.; Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto; Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2007
LISA '07
Best Paper:
Application Buffer-Cache Management for Performance: Running the World's Largest MRTG
David Plonka, Archit Gupta, and Dale Carder, University of Wisconsin Madison
Best Paper:
PoDIM: A Language for High-Level Configuration Management
Thomas Delaet and Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
16th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Towards Automatic Discovery of Deviations in Binary Implementations with Applications to Error Detection and Fingerprint Generation
David Brumley, Juan Caballero, Zhenkai Liang, James Newsome, and Dawn Song, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Student Paper:
Keep Your Enemies Close: Distance Bounding Against Smartcard Relay Attacks
Saar Drimer and Steven J. Murdoch, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
USENIX '07
Best Paper:
Hyperion: High Volume Stream Archival for Retrospective Querying
Peter Desnoyers and Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Best Paper:
SafeStore: A Durable and Practical Storage System
Ramakrishna Kotla, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Mike Dahlin, The University of Texas at Austin
NSDI '07
Best Paper:
Life, Death, and the Critical Transition: Finding Liveness Bugs in Systems Code
Charles Killian, James W. Anderson, Ranjit Jhala, and Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego
Best Student Paper:
Do Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent?
Michael Piatek, Tomas Isdal, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst
FAST '07
Best Paper:
Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?
Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Paper:
TFS: A Transparent File System for Contributory Storage
James Cipar, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2006
LISA '06
Best Paper:
A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration
Melanie R. Rieback, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Georgi N. Gaydadjiev, Delft University of Technology; Bruno Crispo, Rutger F.H. Hofman, and Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Honorable Mention:
A Forensic Analysis of a Distributed Two-Stage Web-Based Spam Attack
Daniel V. Klein, LoneWolf Systems
OSDI '06
Best Paper:
Rethink the Sync
Edmund B. Nightingale, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Peter M. Chen, and Jason Flinn, University of Michigan
Best Paper:
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach,
Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, and Robert E. Gruber, Google, Inc.
15th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Evaluating SFI for a CISC Architecture
Stephen McCamant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Greg Morrisett, Harvard University
Best Student Paper:
Keyboards and Covert Channels
Gaurav Shah, Andres Molina, and Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania
2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Best Paper:
Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen
Aravind Menon, EPFL; Alan L. Cox, Rice University; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL
Best Paper:
Replay Debugging for Distributed Applications
Dennis Geels, Gautam Altekar, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley
NSDI '06
Best Paper:
Experience with an Object Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer Filesharing
Kevin Walsh and Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University
Best Paper:
Availability of Multi-Object Operations
Haifeng Yu, Intel Research Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University; Phillip B. Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Suman Nath, Microsoft Research
2005
FAST '05
Best Paper:
Ursa Minor: Versatile Cluster-based Storage
Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, and Jay J. Wylie, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Paper:
On Multidimensional Data and Modern Disks
Steven W. Schlosser, Intel Research Pittsburgh; Jiri Schindler, EMC Corporation; Stratos Papadomanolakis, Minglong Shao, Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
LISA '05
Best Paper:
Toward a Cost Model for System Administration
Alva L. Couch, Ning Wu, and Hengky Susanto, Tufts University
Best Student Paper:
Toward an Automated Vulnerability Comparison of Open Source IMAP Servers
Chaos Golubitsky, Carnegie Mellon University
Best Student Paper:
Reducing Downtime Due to System Maintenance and Upgrades
Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh, Columbia University
IMC 2005
Best Student Paper:
Measurement-based Characterization of a Collection of On-line Games
Chris Chambers and Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University; Sambit Sahu and Debanjan Saha, IBM Research
Security '05
Best Paper:
Mapping Internet Sensors with Probe Response Attacks
John Bethencourt, Jason Franklin, and Mary Vernon University of Wisconsin, Madison
Best Student Paper:
Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID Device
Steve Bono, Matthew Green, and Adam Stubblefield, Johns Hopkins University; Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories; Avi Rubin, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Szydlo, RSA Laboratories
MobiSys '05
Best Paper:
Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads
Ramón Cáceres, Casey Carter, Chandra Narayanaswami, and Mandayam Raghunath, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
NSDI '05
Best Paper:
Detecting BGP Configuration Faults with Static Analysis
Nick Feamster and Hari Balakrishnan, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Best Student Paper:
Botz-4-Sale: Surviving Organized DDoS Attacks That Mimic Flash Crowds
Srikanth Kandula and Dina Katabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Matthias Jacob, Princeton University; Arthur Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Akamai
2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General Track
Best Paper:
Debugging Operating Systems with Time-Traveling Virtual Machines
Samuel T. King, George W. Dunlap, and Peter M. Chen, University of Michigan
Best Student Paper:
Itanium—A System Implementor's Tale
Charles Gray, University of New South Wales; Matthew Chapman and Peter Chubb, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia; David Mosberger-Tang, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Gernot Heiser, University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia
FREENIX Track
Best Paper:
USB/IP—A Peripheral Bus Extension for Device Sharing over IP Network
Takahiro Hirofuchi, Eiji Kawai, Kazutoshi Fujikawa, and Hideki Sunahara,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
2004
OSDI '04
Best Paper:
Recovering Device Drivers
Michael M. Swift, Muthukaruppan Annamalai, Brian N. Bershad, and Henry M. Levy, University of Washington
Best Paper:
Using Model Checking to Find Serious File System Errors
Junfeng Yang, Paul Twohey, and Dawson Engler, Stanford University; Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research
LISA '04
Best Paper:
Scalable Centralized Bayesian Spam Mitigation with Bogofilter
Jeremy Blosser and David Josephsen, VHA, Inc.
Security '04
Best Paper:
Understanding Data Lifetime via Whole System Simulation
Jim Chow, Ben Pfaff, Tal Garfinkel, Kevin Christopher, and Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
Best Student Paper:
Fairplay—A Secure Two-Party Computation System
Dahlia Malkhi and Noam Nisan, Hebrew University; Benny Pinkas, HP Labs; Yaron Sella, Hebrew University
2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General Track
Best Paper:
Handling Churn in a DHT
Sean Rhea and Dennis Geels, University of California, Berkeley; Timothy Roscoe, Intel Research, Berkeley; John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley
Best Paper:
Energy Efficient Prefetching and Caching
Athanasios E. Papathanasiou and Michael L. Scott, University of Rochester
FREENIX Track
Best Paper:
Wayback: A User-level Versioning File System for Linux
- Brian Cornell, Peter A. Dinda, and Fabián E. Bustamante, Northwestern University
Best Student Paper:
Design and Implementation of Netdude, a Framework for Packet Trace Manipulation
- Christian Kreibich, University of Cambridge, UK
VM '04
Best Paper:
Semantic Remote Attestation—A Virtual Machine Directed Approach to Trusted Computing
- Vivek Haldar, Deepak Chandra, and Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine
FAST '04
Best Paper:
Row-Diagonal Parity for Double Disk Failure Correction
- Peter Corbett, Bob English, Atul Goel, Tomislav Grcanac, Steven Kleiman, James Leong, and Sunitha Sankar, Network Appliance, Inc.
Best Student Paper:
Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID
- Muthian Sivathanu, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Best Student Paper:
A Framework for Building Unobtrusive Disk Maintenance Applications
- Eno Thereska, Jiri Schindler, John Bucy, Brandon Salmon, Christopher R. Lumb, and Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
NSDI '04
Best Paper:
Trickle: A Self-Regulating Algorithm for Code Propagation and Maintenance in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Philip Levis, University of California, Berkeley, and Intel Research Berkeley; Neil Patel, University of California, Berkeley; David Culler, University of California, Berkeley, and Intel Research Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI
Best Student Paper:
Listen and Whisper: Security Mechanisms for BGP
- Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, University of California, Berkeley; Volker Roth, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany; Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley; Scott Shenker, University of California, Berkeley, and ICSI; Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley
2003
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LISA '03
Award Paper:
- STRIDER: A Black-box, State-based Approach to Change and Configuration Management and Support
- Yi-Min Wang, Chad Verbowski, John Dunagan, Yu Chen, Helen J. Wang, Chun Yuan, and Zheng Zhang, Microsoft Research
- Award Paper:
- Distributed Tarpitting: Impeding Spam Across Multiple Servers
- Tim Hunter, Paul Terry, and Alan Judge, eircom.net
BSDCon '03
Best Paper:
Cryptographic Device Support for FreeBSD
- Samuel J. Leffler, Errno Consulting
Best Student Paper:
Running BSD Kernels as User Processes by Partial Emulation and Rewriting of Machine Instructions
- Hideki Eiraku and Yasushi Shinjo, University of Tsukuba
12th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Remote Timing Attacks Are Practical
- David Brumley and Dan Boneh, Stanford University
Best Student Paper:
Establishing the Genuinity of Remote Computer Systems
- Rick Kennell and Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University
2003 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General Track
- Award Paper:
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Undo for Operators: Building an Undoable E-mail Store
- Aaron B. Brown and David A. Patterson, University of California, Berkeley
- Award Paper:
- Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
- Keir Fraser, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory; Fay Chang, Google Inc.
FREENIX Track
Best Paper:
StarFish: Highly Available Block Storage
- Eran Gabber, Jeff Fellin, Michael Flaster, Fengrui Gu, Bruce Hillyer, Wee Teck Ng, Banu Özden, and Elizabeth Shriver, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs
Best Student Paper:
Flexibility in ROM: A Stackable Open Source BIOS
- Adam Agnew and Adam Sulmicki, University of Maryland at College Park; Ronald Minnich, Los Alamos National Labs; William Arbaugh, University of Maryland at College Park
First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
Best Paper:
Energy Aware Lossless Data Compression
- Kenneth Barr and Krste Asanovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Best Paper:
Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays
- Mustafa Uysal and Arif Merchant, Hewlett-Packard Labs; Guillermo A. Alvarez, IBM Almaden Research Center
Best Student Paper:
Pond: The OceanStore Prototype
- Sean Rhea, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Hakim Weatherspoon, Ben Zhao, and John Kubiatowicz, University of California, Berkeley
4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Best Paper:
SkipNet: A Scalable Overlay Network with Practical Locality Properties
- Nicholas J. A. Harvey, Microsoft Research and University of Washington; Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Research; Stefan Saroiu, University of Washington; Marvin Theimer and Alec Wolman, Microsoft Research
Best Student Paper:
Scriptroute: A Public Internet
Measurement Facility
- Neil Spring, David Wetherall, and Tom Anderson, University of Washington
2002
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5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Best Paper:
Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server
- Carl A. Waldspurger, VMware, Inc.
Best Student Paper:
An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems
- Stefan Saroiu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn, Steven D. Gribble, and Henry M. Levy, University of Washington
LISA '02: 16th Systems Administration Conference
Best Paper:
RTG: A Scalable SNMP Statistics Architecture for Service Providers
- Robert Beverly, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Best Paper:
Work-Augmented Laziness with the Los Task Request System
- Thomas Stepleton, Swarthmore College Computer Society
11th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Security in Plan 9
- Russ Cox, MIT LCS; Eric Grosse and Rob Pike, Bell Labs; Dave Presotto, Avaya Labs and Bell Labs; Sean Quinlan, Bell Labs
Best Student Paper:
Infranet: Circumventing Web Censorship and Surveillance
- Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Greg Harfst, Hari Balakrishnan, and David Karger, MIT
2nd Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium
Best Paper:
An Empirical Study of Method In-lining for a Java Just-in-Time Compiler
- Toshio Suganuma, Toshiaki Yasue, and Toshio Nakatani, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
Best Student Paper:
Supporting Binary Compatibility with Static Compilation
- Dachuan Yu, Zhong Shao, and Valery Trifonov, Yale University
2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General Track
Best Paper:
Structure and Performance of the Direct Access File System
- Kostas Magoutis, Salimah Addetia, Alexandra Fedorova, and Margo I. Seltzer, Harvard University; Jeffrey S. Chase, Andrew J. Gallatin, Richard Kisley, and Rajiv G. Wickremesinghe, Duke University; and Eran Gabber, Lucent Technologies
Best Student Paper:
EtE: Passive End-to-End Internet Service Performance Monitoring
- Yun Fu and Amin Vahdat, Duke University; Ludmila Cherkasova and Wenting Tang, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
FREENIX Track
- Best FREENIX Paper:
- CPCMS: A Configuration Management System Based on Cryptographic Names
- Jonathan S. Shapiro and John Vanderburgh, Johns Hopkins University
- Best FREENIX Student Paper:
- SWILL: A Simple Embedded Web Server Library
- Sotiria Lampoudi and David M. Beazley, University of Chicago
BSDCon '02
Best Paper:
Running "fsck" in the Background
Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Consultant
Best Paper:
Design And Implementation of a Direct Access File System (DAFS) Kernel Server for FreeBSD
- Kostas Magoutis, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Best Paper:
VENTI - A New Approach to Archival Data Storage
Sean Quinlan and Sean Dorward, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Best Student Paper:
Track-aligned Extents: Matching Access Patterns to Disk Drive Characteristics
- Jiri Schindler, John Linwood Griffin, Christopher R. Lumb, Gregory R. Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
2001
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LISA 2001: 15th Systems Administration Conference
Best Theory Paper:
- A Probabilistic Approach to Estimating Computer System Reliability
- Robert Apthorpe, Excite@Home, Inc.
- Best Applied Paper:
- Lexis EXam Invigilation System
- Mike Wyer and Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College
5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference
Best Paper:
Design and implementation of a Linux SCSI target for storage area networks
- Ashish Palekar, Trebia Networks Inc. and Narendran Ganapathy, Anshul Chadda, Robert D. Russell, InterOperability Laboratory
10th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity
- David Moore, CAIDA; Geoffrey M. Voelker and Stefan Savage, University of California, San
Diego
Best Student Paper:
The Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web
- Kevin Fu, Emil Sit, Kendra Smith, and Nick Feamster, MIT
2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General Track
- Best Paper (1):
- Virtualizing I/O Devices on VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor
- Jeremy Sugerman, Ganesh Venkitachalam, and Beng-Hong Lim, VMware Inc.
- Best Paper (2):
- A Toolkit for User-Level File Systems
- David Mazières, NYU
FREENIX Track
- Best FREENIX Paper:
- Nickle: Language Principles and Pragmatics
- Bart Massey, Portland State University, and Keith Packard, SuSE Inc.
- Best FREENIX Student Paper:
- MEF, Malicious Email Filter–A UNIX Mail Filter That Detects Malicious Windows Executables
- Matthew G. Schultz and Eleazar Eskin, Columbia University; Erez Zadok, SUNY Stony Brook;
- Manasi Bhattacharyya and Salvatore J. Stolfo, Columbia University
Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium
Best Student Paper:
SableVM: A Research Framework for the Efficient Execution of Java Bytecode
- Etienne M. Gagnon and Laurie J. Hendren, McGill University
3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS)
Best Paper:
Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming Media Workload
- Maureen Chesire, Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Henry M. Levy
6th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems
Best Student Paper: (1)
- Content-Based Publish/Subscribe with Structural Reflection
- Patrick Thomas Eugster and Rachid Guerraoui
- Best Student Paper: (2)
- Multi-Dispatch in the Java Virtual Machine: Design and Implementation
- Christopher Dutchyn, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron, Steve Bromling, and Wade Holst
2000
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7th USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference
Best Paper:
Rapid CORBA Server Development in Tcl: A Case Study
- Jason Brazile, Andrej Vckovski
Best Student Paper:
Supporting Information Awareness Using Animated Widgets
- Scott McCrickard, Q. Alex Zhao
2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
General Track
Best Paper:
Scalable Content-aware Request Distribution in Cluster-based Network Servers
- Mohit Aron, Darren Sanders, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel
- Best Student Paper (1):
- Integrating a Command Shell Into a Web Browser
- Robert Miller, Brad Myers
- Best Student Paper (2):
- Virtual Services: A New Abstraction for Server Consolidation
- John Reumann, Ashish Mehra, Kang G. Shin, Dilip Kandlur
FREENIX Track
- Best Freenix Paper:
- An Operating System in Java for the Lego Mindstorms RCX Microcontroller
- Pekka Nikander
- Best Freenix Student Paper:
- Protocol Independence Using the Sockets API
- Craig Metz
3rd Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT Conference
Best Paper:
Kerberos Interoperability Issues
- Paul B. Hill
Best Student Paper:
On Designing a Database for Integrated User Management: Pitfalls and Possibilities
- Amy LaMeyer, Shankaranarayanan Ganesan, Jesper M. Johansson
4th USENIX Windows Systems Symposium
Best Student Paper:
Archipelago: An Island-Based File System for Highly Available and Scalable Internet Services
- Minwen Ji, Edward Felten, Randolph Wang, Jaswinder Pal Singh
9th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Publius: A Robust, Tamper-Evident, Censorship-Resistant, and Source Anonymous
- Web Publishing System
- Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin, Lorrie Faith Cranor
Best Student Paper:
Detecting Backdoors
- Yin Zhang, Vern Paxson
4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Best Paper:
- Checking System Rules Using System-Specific, Programmer-Written
- Compiler Extensions
- Dawson Engler, Benjamin Chelf, Andy Chou, and Seth Hallem
Best Student Paper:
Proactive Recovery in a Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant System
- Miguel Castro and Barbara Liskov
4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference
Best Paper:
PVFS: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters
- Philip H. Carns, Walter B. Ligon, Robert B. Ross, Rajeef Thakur
LISA 2000: 14th Systems Administration Conference
Best Paper: (1)
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Deployme: Tellme's Software and Content Manager
- Kyle Oppenheim and Patrick McCormick
- Best Paper: (2)
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Tracing Anonymous Packets to Their Approximate Source
- Hal Burch, Bill Cheswick
Best Student Paper:
Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network with Sound
- Michael Gilfix and Alva Couch
1999
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3rd Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Best Paper:
IO-Lite: A Unified I/O Buffering and Caching System
- Vivek S. Pai, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel
- Best Student Paper (1):
- Automatic I/O Hint Generation through Speculative Execution
- Fay Chang, Garth A. Gibson
- Best Student Paper (2):
- Resource Containers: A New Facility for Resource Management in Server Systems
- Gaurav Banga (student), Peter Druschel, Jeffrey Mogul
1st Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring
Best Student Paper:
Intrusion Detection Through Dynamic Software Measurement
- Sebastian Elbaum (student), John C. Munson
Best Paper:
Experience with EMERALD to Date
- Peter G. Neumann and Phillip A. Porras
5th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems
Best Student Paper:
Filters as a Language Support for Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Scripting Languages
- Gusaf Neumann, Uwe Zdun (student)
USENIX Workshop on Smartcard Technology
Best Paper:
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Modeling Security Threats for Smart Cards
- Bruce Schneier, Adam Shostack
Best Student Paper:
Design Strategies for Tamper-Resistant Card Processors
- Oliver Kommerling, Markus G. Kuhn (student)
1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Outstanding paper award for a promising new tool:
- Lightweight Structured Text Processing
- Robert C. Miller and Brad A. Myers
- Outstanding paper award for a promising new algorithm:
- The Case for Compressed Caching in Virtual Memory Systems
- Paul R. Wilson, Scott F. Kaplan, and Yannis Smaragdakis
- Outstanding paper award for research excellence:
- A scalable and explicit event delivery mechanism for UNIX
- Gaurav Banga, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Peter Druschel
2nd Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT Conference
Best Paper:
NT Security in an Open Academic Environment
- Gregg Daly, Gary Buhrnmaster, Matthew Campbell, Andrea Chan, Robert Cowles, Ernest Danys, Patrick Hancox, Bill Johnson, David Leung, Jeff Lwin
3rd USENIX Windows NT Symposium
Best Student Paper:
Evaluating Windows NT Terminal Server Performance
- Alexander Ya-li Wong (student) & Margo I. Seltzer
8th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper and Best Student Paper:
- The Design and Analysis of Graphical Passwords
- Ian Jermyn (student), Alain Mayer, Fabian Monrose, Michael K. Reiter, Aviel D. Rubin
2nd USENIX Symposium on Intenet Technologies & Systems (USITS)
Best Paper:
Prefetching Hyperlinks
- Dan Duchamp
Best Student Paper:
Sting: A TCP-based Network Measurment Tool
- Stefan Savage
LISA '99: 13th Systems Administration Conference
Best Paper:
Dealing with Public Ethernet Jacks - Switches, Gateways,
and Authentication
- Robert Beck
Best Student Paper:
A Retrospective on Twelve Years of LISA Proceedings
- Eric Anderson, Dave Patterson
1998
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7th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
Bro: A System for Detecting Network Intruders in Real-Time
- Vern Paxson
Best Student Paper:
Certificate Revocation and Certificate Update
- Kobbi Nissim (student), Moni Naor
4th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems
Best Student Paper:
The Design and Performance of MedJava
- Prashnat Jain (student), Seth Widoff, Douglas Schmidt
1998 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Best Paper and Best Student Paper:
- Scalable Kernel Performance for Internet Servers Under Realistic Loads
- Gaurav Banga (student) and Jeffrey C. Mogul
Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT Symposium
Best Paper:
Patch32: A System for Automated Client OS Updates
- Gerald Carter
2nd USENIX Windows NT Symposium
Best Student Paper (1):
- A Performance Study of Sequential I/O on Windows NT 4
- Erik Riedel
- Best Student Paper (2):
- Vassal: Loadable Scheduler Support for Multi-Policy Scheduling
- George M. Candea (student) and Michael B. Jones
3rd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce
Best Paper:
Detecting Hit Shaving in Click-Through Payment Schemes
- Michael Reiter, Vinod Anupam, Alain Mayer
Best Student Paper:
Electronic Auctions with Private Bids
- Michael Harkavy, Douglas Tygar, Hiroaki Kikuchi
USENIX 6th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference
Best Paper:
NBC's GEnesis Broadcase Automation System: From Prototype to Product
- Stephen J. Angelovich, Kevin B. Kenny, Brion D. Sarachan
Best Student Paper:
WebWiseTclTk: A Safe-Tcl/Tk-based Toolkit Enhanced for the World Wide Web
- Hemang Lavana (student), Franc Brglez (professor)
LISA '98: 12th Systems Administration Conference
Best Paper:
Computer Immunology
- Mark Burgess
Best Student Paper:
Design and Implementation of an Administration System for Distributed Web Server
- C.S. Yang and M.Y. Luo (Student)
1997
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USENIX 1997 Annual Technical Conference
Best Paper:
Embedded Inodes and Explicit Grouping: Exploiting Disk Bandwidth for Small Files
- Gregory R. Ganger & M. Frans Kaashoek
Best Student Paper:
Protected Shared Libraries - A New Approach to Modularity and Sharing
- Arindam Banerji, John Mochael Tracey, David L. Cohn
3rd USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems
Best Student Paper:
Using the Strategy Design Pattern to Compose Reliable Distributed Protocols
- Benoit Garbinato and Rachid Guerraoui
5th Tcl/Tk Workshop
Best Paper:
Writing a Tcl Extension in only 7 years
- Don Libes
- Best Student Paper:
- Jacl: A Tcl Implementation in Java
- Ioi Lam and Brian C. Smith
LISA '97: 11th USENIX Systems Administration Conference
Best Paper:
Implementing a Generalized Tool for Network Monitoring
- Marcus J. Ranum, Kent Landfield, Mike Stolarchuk, Mark
Sienkiewicz, Andrew Lambeth, Eric Wall
USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies & Systems (USITS)
Best Paper:
Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server
- Gaurav Banga, and Peter Druschel
1996
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USENIX 1996 Annual Technical Conference
Best Paper:
Imbench: Portable Tools for Performance Analysis
- Larry McVoy and Carl Staelin
- Best Student Paper (1):
- AFRAID - A Frequently Redundant Array of Independent Disks
- Stefan Savage and John Wilkes
- Best Student Paper (2):
- A Comparison of FFS Disk Allocation Policies
- Keith A. Smith and Margo Seltzer
4th Annual USENIX Tcl/Tk Workshop
Best Paper:
Lessons from the Neighborhood Viewer: Building Innovative Collaborative Applications in Tcl and Tk
- Alex Safonov, Douglas Perrin, Joseph A. Konstan, John Carlis, and Robert Elde
USENIX 2nd Symposium on OS Design and Implementation
Best Paper:
Automatic Compiler-Inserted I/O Prefetching for Out-Of-Core
Applications
- Todd C. Mowry, Angela K. Demke, Orran Krieger
Best Student Paper:
Safe Kernel Extensions Without Run-Time Checking
- George C. Necula and Peter Lee
6th USENIX Security Symposium
Best Paper:
A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications - Confining the Wiley Hacker
- Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, Randi Thomas and Eric A. Brewer
Best Student Paper:
Building Systems That Flexibly Control Download Executable Content
- Trent Jaeger, Aviel D. Rubin, and Atul Prakash
Second USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce
Best Paper:
Tamper Resistance--A Cautionary Note
- Ross Anderson and Markus Kuhn
Best Student Paper:
Analysis of the SSL 3.0 Protocol
- David Wagner and Bruce Schneier
LISA '96: 10th System Administration Conference
Best Paper:
SLINK: Simple, Effective Filesystem Maintenance Abstractions for Community-Based Administration
- Alva L. Couch
Best Student Paper:
Automatic and Reliable Elimination of E-mail Loops Based on Statistical Analysis
- Eduardo Solana, V. Baggiolini, M. Ramluckun, J. Harms
1995
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USENIX 1995 Annual Technical Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
Best Paper:
Performance Implecations of Multiple Pointer Sizes
- Jefffrey C. Mogul, Joel F. Bartlett, Robert N. Mayo and
Amitabh Srivastava
Best Student Paper:
File System Logging versus Clustering: A Performance Comparison
- Margot Seltzer, Keith A. Smith, Hari Balakrishnan, Jacqueline Chang, Sara McMains and Venkata Padmanabhan
LISA '95: 9th System Administration Conference
Best Paper:
OpenDist—Incremental Software Distribution
- Peter W. Osel and Wilfried Gansheimer
Best Student Paper:
Multi-platform Interrogation and Reporting with Rscan
- Nathaniel Sammons
USENIX 3rd Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop
Best Paper:
Two years with the TkMan: Lessons and Innovations
- Thomas A. Phelps
- Best Presentation:
- Advances in the Pad++ Zoomable Graphics Widget
- Benjamin B. Bederson and James D. Hollan
1994
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USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference
Best Paper:
A Better Update Policy
- Jeff Mogul
Best Student Paper:
Secure Short-Cut routine for Mobile IP
- Trevor Blackwell, Kee Chan, Koling Chang, Thomas Charuhas, James Gwertzman, Brad Karp, H. T. Kung, David Li, Dong Lin, Robert Morris, Rob Polansky, Diane Tang, Cliff Young, John Zao
USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference
Best Paper:
GLIMPSE: A Tool to Search Through Entire File Systems
- Udi Manber and Sun Wu
Best Student Paper:
Memory Behavior for an X11 Window System
- J.Bradley Chen
- Best Presentation:
- Acme: A User Interface for Programmers
- Rob Pike
LISA '94: 8th USENIX System Administration Conference
Best Paper:
The Group Administration Shell and the GASH Network Computing Environment
- Jonathan Abbey
Best Student Paper:
Soft: A Software Environment Abstraction Mechanism
- Robert Leslie
First Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
Best Paper:
Lottery Scheduling: Flexible Propotional-Share Resource Management
- Carl A. Waldspurger
1993
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USENIX Summer 1993 Technical Conference
Best Paper:
Call Path Profiling of Monotonic Program Resources in UNIX
- Robert J. Hall and Aaron J. Goldberg
Best Student Paper:
Anonymous RPC: Low-latency Protection in a 64-Bit Address Space
- Curtis Yarvin, Richard Bukowski, and Thomas Anderson
- Best Presentation:
- AudioFile: A Network-transparent System for Distributed Audio Applications
- James Gettys, Thomas Levergood, Andrew C. Payne, Lawrence C. Stewart, and G. Winfield Treese
USENIX Winter 1993 Conference
Best Paper:
The Nachos Instructional Operating System
- Wayne Christopher, Steven J. Procter and Thomas E. Anderson
Best Student Paper:
The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-level Packet Capture
- Steve McCanne
- Best Presentation (1):
- An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
- Margo Seltzer, Keith Bostick and M. Kirk McKusick
- Best Presentation (2):
- Phonestation, Moving the Telephone Onto the Virtual Desktop
- Stephen A. Uhler
1992
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USENIX Summer 1992 Conference
Best Paper:
A Discipline of Error Handling (PDF format)
- Doug Moen
Best Student Paper:
The Recover Box (PDF format)
- Mary Baker and Mark Sullivan
USENIX Winter 1992 Conference
Best Student Paper (1):
- Trace-Driven Analysis of Name and Attribute Caching in a Distributed System (PDF format)
- Ken Shirriff and John Ousterhout
- Best Student Paper (2):
- agrep - A Fast Approximate Pattern Matching Tool (PDF format)
- Sun Wu and Udi Manber
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USENIX Summer 1991 Conference
Best Student Paper:
Long-term Caching Strategies for Very Large Distributed File Systems (PDF format)
- Matt Blaze and Rafael Alonso
USENIX Winter 1991 Conference
Best Student Paper:
A New Hash Package for UNIX (PDF format)
- Margo Seltzer and Ozan Yigit
1990
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USENIX Summer 1990 Conference
Best Student Paper:
Montage: Breaking Windows into Small Pieces (PDF format)
- Paul Haahr
USENIX Winter 1990 Conference
Best Student Paper:
Disk Scheduling Revisited (PDF format)
- Margo Seltzer, Peter Chen, John Ousterhout
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